Tacky and Non-Fiction Penguins

Thursday, January 23, 2014

I've already posted on how much we've been having with penguins {HERE} We've also been having some fun with Tacky the Penguin (this was last week). This is my attempt at drawing Tacky.... how did I do?? HA! Don't laugh. My drawing skills are still a thing of work. lol

You see? This is why I love NOT teaching out of the book....I literally hit EVERY single standard and skill that our pacing guide told us to do in the 3rd nine weeks JUST doing the last 3 weeks of my penguin activities!! We've done character traits, sequencing, comparison, Main Idea and details of both fiction and nonfiction, author's purpose....whew! I LOVE that my admin lets me teach this way!!

Worked on character traits using clues from the book.

They compared fiction and non-fiction books...using proof from the books.

The last few weeks, we've been working REALLY hard on our penguin research books.

Today, they have FINALLY started to come together! About half of the class is finished, and the other half SHOULD finish tomorrow! Take a look at the video to see what's inside the books.